On 24-25 October 2016 in Astana and 27-28 October 2016 in Almaty two-day trainings on technics of visiting places of deprivation of liberty and interviewing detained persons were organised for members of the National Preventive Mechanism and representatives of the National Human Rights Centre.
The activities involved 59 participants from different regions of Kazakhstan. Throughout the training, they had an opportunity to improve the quality of their monitoring work and interviewing technics. The training programme covered different issues related to peculiarities of monitoring work in different establishments (prisons, police stations and psychiatric institutions), types of interviews, planning and preparation of visits, safety and security during the interview. It consisted of both theoretical and practical training sessions which helped the participants not only to increase their knowledge on relevant international standards and good practices, but also to improve professional skills in role plays.
This was a third chain of trainings for members of the National Preventive Mechanism conducted within the framework of the European Union and the Council of Europe Joint Programme “Support to Kazakh authorities in improving the quality and efficiency of the justice system in Kazakhstan”. These trainings are aimed at increasing the capacity of national human rights institutions in preventing torture and other forms of ill-treatment in Kazakhstan.
